When is electrical cortical stimulation more likely to produce afterdischarges?

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• 作者：Hyang Woon Lee ; W.R.S. Webber ; Nathan Crone ; Diana L. Miglioretti ; Ronald P. Lesser
• 关键词：Afterdischarges ; Cortical stimulation ; Epilepsy surgery ; Functional mapping ; Inter-trial interval
• 刊名：Clinical Neurophysiology
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：January 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：121
• 期：1
• 页码：14-20
• 全文大小：283 K

文摘

Objective

To study when afterdischarges (ADs) are more likely to occur during cortical stimulation.

Methods

We examined 6250 electrical stimulation trials in 13 patients with subdural electrodes, studying whether AD occurrence during a trial was influenced by electrode pair stimulated or AD occurrence during the previous trial. In total 545 electrodes were stimulated, 119 frontal (pre-perirolandic), 289 perirolandic, 36 parietal (post-perirolandic), 95 temporal, and 6 occipital.

Results

When the same electrode pair was stimulated as the prior trial, 19 % produced ADs compared to 5 % of trials when a different electrodes pair was stimulated (p < 0.0001). When trials showed ADs, and the next trial stimulated the same electrode pair, ADs occurred in 46 % of cases, compared to 13 % of trials following trials without ADs (p < 0.0001). AD probability decreased with increased inter-trial interval length only when the prior trial was at the same electrode pair and had produced an AD (p = 0.001). AD probability increased with stimulation duration, whether the trial followed a trial with (p < 0.001) or without (p < 0.0001) an AD.

Conclusions

ADs were more likely to occur when an electrode pair showed ADs and was stimulated again, especially when stimulating after short inter-trial intervals or for longer duration.

Significance

When ADs occur, waiting about a minute before resuming stimulation might lessen the likelihood of AD recurrence.